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“Only prostitutes carry condoms”-What Sunday Sun survey reveals

A front page piece in the Sunday Sun’s Sunlife section took the question “Who should carry the condom?” to the street and social media, not only normalising condom use but also showing us where we stand when it comes to women’s ability to negotiate protection.

Women’s compromised ability to insist on condom use has long been established as one of the major drivers of an HIV epidemic that disproportionately affects women and girls.

Many of the respondents in the Sunday Sun’s survey who answered that women should carry condoms factored this in when answering the question.

Continue reading | 16 November 2012 | 0 Comments | Tags: condoms, negotiating condom use, sunday sun

Female condoms: More power to you

The Bigfoot of HIV prevention is back. The female condom is in the spotlight again, but its lack of popularity raises awkward questions around what the government is doing to protect women from HIV while MMC campaigns receive the lions-share of the prevention attention.
Continue reading | 1 September 2011 | 0 Comments | Tags: circumcision, condoms, female condom, female initiated hiv prevention, hiv prevention, microbicide gels, midwives aids alliance, mmc services, negotiating condom use, sa women's hiv prvention summit, the star, the times, transactional sex, women

Demystifying the female condom

PlusNews has featured an article breaking the silence around the Bigfoot of contraception and protection, the female condom. The article offers some insight into how the device could be one of the best things you’ve never heard of but also considers its downfalls.
Continue reading | 12 August 2011 | 0 Comments | Tags: condoms, fc2 female condom, female condom, gender inequality, hiv prevention, natural rubber latex, negotiating condom use, path, plusnews, synthetic latex